Inspired by the lovely @silverlullabies !!! Love your work!!!
So thinking of 3/4 of the 141 as toxic, manipulative men. Men who take great joy in stringing people along and confronting them like they did something wrong. (Tagged writer did toxic!Gaz!!)
Price likes to make lovers feel safe. To feel protected, like they don’t need to worry about anything at all. He’ll take care of it, “don’t worry your little head about anything, gorgeous.” He likes to go over and fix things, get on you about your car maintenance, takes you out on expensive dates. And then he likes to cut it off. Act like you’re taking advantage of him. Why would he do all that for someone he doesn’t even see a future with? He’s “sorry it had to come out this way, but really love? Do you think it’s right to be so demanding?” He wants a bit of a tantrum. Something that proves his point. He wants to see the hurt on your face. Wants the sad little apologies and offer to make it up to him
He meets his match in someone who never wanted his help in the first place. Certainly never needed it. Hearing “oh, I mean, sure, that’s fair enough. No worries, sorry about that I just thought you liked doing all that stuff. All good, I’ll do it myself.” You’re perfectly capable and competent in your own right and John is pissed. He never took the time to notice that before now
Soap likes to be the most fun partner you’ve ever had. Takes you on fast, exciting dates. Adventures. He wants to hear you laughing and having more fun than he thinks you’ve ever had. Then he wants to say it’s should’ve been your responsibility, make feel bad so he can pout and see you grovel. Then he’ll leave no matter what, thinking he’s tainted any future dates you have because no one is a fun as him. Cancels a date he’d planned and says “love, ‘ve been puttin’ a lot of energy into this…Feels like you jus’…don’ really care as much as me…maybe this just isnae a good match.”
His nightmare is someone who is more than willing to make and seek out their own fun. Someone with friends they can have plenty of fun with on their own. Someone who doesn’t rely on a partner to have exciting experiences. Someone who says “oh, I’m sorry you felt that way. No pressure then, I won’t try to push you or anything. Actually some of my friends were planning to do this pub crawl thing tonight-I can still go out with them, no harm done.” Now Johnny gets to feel as replaceable as he makes others feel
Ghost is more a classic asshole. He spends the relationship living up to his name. He likes to disappear and reappear. Make you crave his presence. His attention. Make it so all you can think about is when he’ll pop up next. When he’ll give you the time of day. Then one day “Think we should break up. I’m an adult, I don’t want to be datin someone who’s expectin me to be around all the time, be at their beck and call.” He wants to see the look of shock, the look of confusion, the look of “god, is he right?” He wants to make you question yourself and your standards
He’s the only one making those faces when you say “I…I didn’t realize this was supposed to be us dating…you come and go, I just assumed we weren’t exclusive…but…uh I guess all’s well that ends well right?” Yeah you’ve been with other people the entire time. Actually, you’ve been seeing that guy with the pretty eyes and nice smile that Simon introduced you to once when he deigned to invite you out to the bar with him. Didn’t think for a second that Simon thought this was an actual relationship with how little time and effort he put into it
And I’ll leave you to read about Gaz from the original here!!! It was great! :))))))
